# Asia Times

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'''''Asia Times''''' ({{lang-zh|first=t|t=亞洲時報}})<!--Chinese name sen here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060620232852/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EE13Aa01.html-->, formerly known as '''''Asia Times Online''''', is a [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong)-based [English language](/source/English_language) [news media](/source/news_media) publishing group, covering [politics](/source/politics), [economics](/source/economics), [business](/source/business), and culture from an [Asia](/source/Asia)n perspective.<ref name="ATol_aboutus">{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/mediakit/aboutus.html|title=About us — Bridging East and West|year=2011|work=Asia Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513105745/http://www.atimes.com/mediakit/aboutus.html|archive-date=2011-05-13|url-status=dead|access-date=2011-04-03}}</ref> ''Asia Times'' publishes in English and simplified Chinese.

== History ==
The Hong Kong website is self-described successor to [Bangkok](/source/Bangkok)-based print newspaper ''Asia Times'' that was launched in 1995 and closed in mid-1997, using the domain asiatimes.com.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://smallwarsjournal.com/author/asia-times|title=Asia Times|website=[Small Wars Journal](/source/Small_Wars_Journal)|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref>

''Asia Times Online'' was created early in 1999, at atimes.com, describing itself as a successor in "publication policy and editorial outlook" to the print newspaper ''Asia Times'', owned by [Sondhi Limthongkul](/source/Sondhi_Limthongkul), a [Thai](/source/Thailand) [media mogul](/source/Media_proprietor) and leader of the [People's Alliance for Democracy](/source/People's_Alliance_for_Democracy), who later sold his business.

The new publishing company is Asia Times Holdings Limited, incorporated and registered in Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asia Times Trademark of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited – Registration Number 4691772 – Serial Number 86328077|url=https://trademarks.justia.com/863/28/asia-86328077.html|publisher=[Justia](/source/Justia)|access-date=2017-02-22}}</ref> Many reporters from the ''Asia Times'' print edition continued their careers as journalists, and a group of those contributors created ''Asia Times Online'' as a successor to the ''Asia Times''. The word "Online" is no longer part of the website news portal.

In 2006, ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' described ''Asia Times Online'' as "one of the most prominent of the [English-language] regional publications" covering Asia.<ref name="NYT_Asian_news">{{cite news|first=Vaudine |last=England |title=Asia's English readers miss in-depth media — Business — International Herald Tribune |date=2006-05-28 |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/business/worldbusiness/28iht-amedia29.1835270.html |access-date=2011-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218011610/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/business/worldbusiness/28iht-amedia29.1835270.html?_r=2 |archive-date=2014-12-18 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The site was relaunched with a new logo and design in October 2016 with Uwe Parpart as editor. Other executives include Cecil Ho, former chief financial officer of ReOrient Group Limited.

The site was again relaunched in February 2019 with a refreshed web design, multiple languages and a domain name change to asiatimes.com. According to its "About" page, ''Asia Times'' has "two main newsrooms and social media hubs ... in Bangkok and [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) ... supported by bureaus in Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, and New York".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-28 |title=About Asia Times |url=https://asiatimes.com/about-us/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Asia Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

== See also ==
* {{Portal-inline|Hong Kong}}
* {{Portal-inline|Journalism}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website}}

{{Newspapers published in Hong Kong}}

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